Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aim of the project was to improve access to local and trade directories for the period 1750-1919 by making a substantial collection of English and Welsh directories available online as a Digital Library of Historical Directories. This digital resource comprises in total some 600 directories, covering every English county together with Wales, and ranging widely over the period 1750-1919 (the latter cut-off point chosen for copyright reasons). There is a particular focus on the 1850s, 1890s and 1910s, with at least one directory provided for each county in each of these decades. The digitisation of the volumes involved a two-stage process, in which (1) the hard-copy source was scanned to produce a graphic image of each page, and then (2) those images were processed using OCR software to generate a machine-readable text file.An online version of this resource can be found on the Website of the University of Leicester.

This data collection includes the following directories:- Kelly's  Directory  of  Cambridgeshire,  Norfolk  &  Suffolk. [Part 1: Cambridgeshire] (1892)- Kelly's Directory of Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. [Part 2: Norfolk] (1892)- Kelly's Directory of Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. [Part 3: Suffolk] (1892)- Kelly's Directory of Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. [Cambridgeshire only] (1896)- Kelly's Directory of Norfolk (1896)- Kelly's Directory of Suffolk (1900)- Kelly's Directory of Cambridgeshire (1904)- Kelly's Directory of Norfolk (1904)- Cowell's Directory of Felixstowe & Walton (1909)- Kelly's Directory of Norfolk (1912)- Kelly's Directory of Suffolk (1912)- Street and General Directory of Cambridge (1913)- Kelly's Directory of Cambridgeshire (1916)

Main Topics:The directories included are of many different kinds, commonly embracing trade, commercial, and private resident directories, together with gazetteers, almanacs, official information, etc. For the purposes of deposit in the UK Data Archive, the collection has been divided into 35 studies on a regional and temporal basis.

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Compilation or synthesis of existing material